Learning: I’ve never liked when watercolors leave an opaque film over black lines. Not being a watercolorist, I’ve never had to deal with this. But now that I’m practicing, jeeeeeez. Bugs the heck out of me. In the dragon’s mouth above, you can see where the line looks slightly gray. I tried diluting the yellow overlaying the ink, but then the color in the dragon’s face got washed out.
The same thing happened along the dragon’s back. The yellow covered the scales, I attempted to dilute it but ended up making the ink (which I thought was dry) bleed. You can see a slight gray wash there.
I noticed this effect is most pronounced with yellows. Not just that it’s the brightest color but I think there’s something chemical in the pigment that reacts differently over ink. The yellows seem to pool over the black, blues almost avoid it, like there’s a some sort of repellant charge in the pigment’s ions. I’m sure I’ll figure it out. And I am having fun, even if I’m sure my face while painting looked something like this:
Sorry you were dragon yesterday while inking. (ba-dum-tss!)
I think I might leave a horrible pun comment on each post, to deflect from the fact that I don’t know anything about inks, or much at all really. 🙂 Still, I enjoy your posts!
Glad to have the interaction! It’s definitely a different feeling posting into the void. I started out missing seeing Likes appear, but I’m getting into it.